Trial set to determine what SCO owes Novell, Jan 18, 2008

Novell will head to court this April to find out what it is owed, if anything, by SCO, which had been trying to earn royalties from Unix code it did not own.

For the second time since October, a sub-$200 fully equipped Linux desktop PC is available for sale to U.S. consumers.

A team of engineering students at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. is designing a digital stethoscope based on uClinux. The team, called "Rhythm Reloaded," released a project proposal on the open source device, which runs Freescale's Coldfire MCF5275 CPU.

After the filing of the Verizon / BusyBox suit, and after reading about any number of other, similar incidents where a company showed what could only be seen as flagrant disregard for the GPL, I had to ask myself: Why do people do this? Are companies really that naive about the GPL, or do they just think they can get away with anything?

A developer of Linux-based, IP-media applications formally launched its software for Texas Instruments's DaVinci media processor platform. DigiLink Software says its Digital Media Elements (DME) IP-media stack for set-top boxes (STBs) lets television viewers watch and record Internet TV (ITV), including Flash-based content like YouTube.

Shuttle turned a lot of heads with the announcement of its $199 Linux PC at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. Now Linspire is looking to tempt retail customers with its own version of the sub-$200 PC.

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